Let’s be clear on one thing – if you’re a man below the age of fifty, the greatest risk to your life, is suicide. Furthermore, perhaps the most important associated risk factor with male suicide, is loneliness and isolation. And so, if our society is to care about the health of men; then male suicide, and the importance of understanding male loneliness should be a national priority, of immediate urgency. No. The most important contributor, to the biggest risk to a man’s life… is not a joke. It is not something to be scoffed or sneered at. It is not something to be mocked, manipulated and mischaracterised as something it isn’t. It is not something to be twisted by narcissists into something that ‘primarily burdens women’, when so many male lives are being decimated and lost. It is not a prop for your mediocre blog, or podcast. It is not about you. I have gotten used to people ignoring the crisis of male loneliness, suicide, and more-or-less everything I post about on this page. But I have come to learn there is actually something worse than ‘doing nothing’. And it’s this. These whiney, highly entitled social media bullies, who are unable to have serious, grown up, evidence based discussion… about quite literally the greatest risk to a man’s life. I am so tired of being lectured about ‘not taking women’s health seriously’, by people who smugly drink from mugs titled ‘male tears’, and point and laugh at the thing most likely to end my life. So who will call them to account? How do we leave these low effort, bratty social justice warriors behind, and have the conversations that could save countless thousands of men from the crushing weight of loneliness? What do you think? ~ Source: Dr Bennett Suicide Agenda Images Spender Sembrat, and Ray Zhou. #malesuicide #mensmentalhealth #maleloneliness

2025-01-08